The stories in this volume dealing with the Partition of India and its
continuing aftermath cover the whole of Prafulla Roys creative life so far,
including his first story as well as some of his most recent. Roy looks beyond
convenient communal labels to write about essential humanity in people whose
destinies, to varying extens, have been taken out of their hands by those who
have propagated the politics of difference in the pluralist society of
contemporary India.